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The Game Development Strategy Guide: Crafting Modern Video Games That Thrive

The Game Development Strategy Guide: Crafting Modern Video Games That Thrive

Level up your game development career at any stage of the game with this expansive and transformative guide to the craft of game development.

2025

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Cheryl Platz, Jesse Schell (Foreword by)

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Shared Design Understanding: #TheUnlock at Riot Games

How did we build a resilient shared understanding of desired player outcomes across platforms, games, AND companies — quickly?

Oct 30, 2023

Oct 30, 2023

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Fail Limit Exceeded

Why Twitter’s latest “rate limit” blunder may be their white whale

Jul 1, 2023

Fail Limit Exceeded

Jul 1, 2023

Breaking OUT of the Video Game Industry

Nov 21, 2024

A pixel-rendered forest against a blue sky. Text reads “Game Over: Play Again?” with Yes/No options

Nov 21, 2024

Breaking In to a Game Industry in Crisis

The worst gaming job market in recent memory doesn’t cure the heart of its big career dreams. How can you safely channel that energy?

Oct 12, 2024

Breaking In to a Game Industry in Crisis

Oct 12, 2024

IWD 2024: On Goalposts, Interviews, and the Illusion of Allyship

On International Women’s Day, it’s time to acknowledge the continued difference between appearances and reality in the workplace — and what…

Mar 8, 2024

IWD 2024: On Goalposts, Interviews, and the Illusion of Allyship

Mar 8, 2024

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Lifting UX Design from the doldrums: four key craft improvements for your teams

Rather than placing the blame on Figma, or other disciplines, how might we look at current conditions and adapt?

Feb 5, 2024

Lifting UX Design from the doldrums: four key craft improvements for your teams

Feb 5, 2024

Surviving Science Fiction: Chat GPT and Large Language Models

How are large language models changing our world, and why are so many people worried about them?

Aug 7, 2023

A photo of a phone resting on a laptop keyboard. The phone is open to a browser page, “bard.google.com”, and the page header reads “Bard can explain why large language models might make mistakes” before showing a confirmation that the user has been added to a waitlist.

Aug 7, 2023

The Decline of Delta: From Passengers to Pawns

Once top of the industry, now withholding food and water as passengers across the country find their health and safety at risk: Delta’s…

Jul 26, 2023

The Decline of Delta: From Passengers to Pawns

Jul 26, 2023

Surviving Science Fiction: An Intro to AI for the Rest of Us

Struggling to make sense of the world post-ChatGPT? So are the rest of us. Let’s explore the basics of artificial intelligence in a more…

Jul 22, 2023

Surviving Science Fiction: An Intro to AI for the Rest of Us

Jul 22, 2023

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The UX Behind #TheUnlock at Riot Games: Part 1

How design helped shape the Riot Games + Xbox Game Pass player experience during business development

Mar 21, 2023

The key art for the Riot Games + Xbox Game Pass partnership. Shown from left to right are Jinx (from League of Legends: Wild Rift, Fade (from VALORANT), Pengu (from Teamfight Tactics), K’sante (in League of Legends), and Yasuo (in Legends of Runeterra).

Mar 21, 2023

Cheryl Platz

Cheryl Platz

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Designer, actress, teacher, speaker, writer, gamer. Author of Design Beyond Devices and The Game Development Strategy Guide. Founder of Ideaplatz, LLC.

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